Tony Hall: “Mr. Speaker, this bill, as I said before in my opening statement, is an extremely important bill to the Congress and to…”

“Mr. Speaker, this bill, as I said before in my opening statement, is an extremely important bill to the Congress and to people all over the world. In many cases, it does mean life or death. I have had the privilege and the honor of being able to travel in many Third World nations, not only living in Third World nations but traveling in Third World nations, and seeing our food aid and seeing our serums and immunization programs and oral rehydration therapy and food-enriched programs and development assistance actually work. I have followed the food from our country to the port up-country and seen it being eaten and used by the people of the country. Most of our food, much of our food and much of our medicines, goes through nonprofit organizations, nonprofit organizations like Worldvision and Catholic Relief Services and CARE and some of the great nonprofits of the world. I am very proud of them and the work that they put in and their people that are in the field. Mr. Speaker, these moneys and these programs really, really work.”